Performance of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Core Antigen Assay in the Diagnosis of Recently Acquired HCV Infection among High-Risk Populations

Sun, HY; Liu, WD; Wang, CW; Wei, YJ; Lin, KY; Huang, YS; Su, LH; Chen, YT; Liu, WC; Su, YC; Chen, YW; Chuang, YC; Lu, PL; Hung, CC; Yu, ML

Hung, CC (通讯作者),Natl Taiwan Univ, Natl Taiwan Univ Hosp, Dept Internal Med, Taipei, Taiwan.;Hung, CC (通讯作者),Natl Taiwan Univ, Coll Med, Taipei, Taiwan.;Yu, ML (通讯作者),Kaohsiung Med Univ, Kaohsiung Med Univ Hosp, Hepatobiliary Div, Dept Internal Med, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.;Hung, CC (通讯作者),Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Trop Med & Parasitol, Coll Med, Taipei, Taiwan.;Hung, CC (通讯作者),China Med Univ Hosp, Dept Med Res, Taichung, Taiwan.;Hung, CC (通讯作者),China Med Univ, Taichung, Taiwan.;Yu, ML (通讯作者),Kaohsiung Me

MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM, 2022; 10 (3):

Abstract

The HCV core antigen assay has a high specificity of 99.4% and negative predictive value of 99.5% but a lower sensitivity of 87.1% and positive predic......

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